“Ark of Refugee Heirloom” - A Cultural Heritage Database

In recent years, research and presentation of cultural heritage have an important ally: technology. The “Ark of Refugee Heirloom” is a project of high cultural importance, since it aims at the recording and documentation of unknown heirlooms, kept mainly in private collections. The objective is the classification and publication of primary data, in order to support further research on the field of Cultural Heritage. The project tracks down heirlooms in the five prefectures of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace that belong to refugees whose origins lay in regions of the Ottoman Empire, south Russia, Bulgaria and others surrounding the Black Sea.